And just in case you don't realize what those "collective farms" are, it goes like this: you're a farmer and you grow stuff and sell stuff from your farm, so now you disown your farm, and give it up to the state, and you're hired by the state to work on {formerly your} farm for something close to the current minimum wage.
Which might have been okay if it had turned out that the collectivized farms would be Ultra-Efficient and Super-Duper-Productive (which was, of course, the Communist Party's prediction) and therefore yielded 20-30 times as much food per man-hour of labor (or per hectare of land) as the "outdated" private agriculture had.

But that's NOT what happened -- agriculture was always a disappointingly under-performing sector of the Soviet economy, even during periods when the USSR was self-sufficient in food and didn't have to rely on imports.

The above-mentioned Walter Duranty tried to rationalize the brutality of the First Five-Year Plan by writing "you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" -- but the bitter joke was that, in the end, farm collectivization never resulted in the promised "omelets", even after breaking millions of human "eggs."